Coastal Community Resilience
Coastal Community Resilience Priority Issue Team
PIT Members - Updated September 30, 2008 (pdf, 10kb)
About the Coastal Community Resilience Priority Issue Team (pdf, 30kb)
State Leadership
ALABAMA
Stephen C. Jones
Geological Investigations Division
Geological Survey of Alabama
Phone:(205) 247-3601
Email: sjones@gsa.alabama.gov
Kelly Brinkman
Natural Resource Planner
State Lands Division-Coastal Section
Phone: (251) 621-1216
Email: Kelly.Brinkman@dcnr.alabama.gov
FLORIDA
Heather Lake-Burger
Division Manager - Preparedness
Division of Environmental Health
Florida Department of Health
Phone:(850) 245-4571
Email: Heather_Lake@doh.state.fl.us
LOUISIANA
Michele Deshotels
Louisiana CPRA Integrated Planning Team
Phone: 225-248-4190
Email: michele.deshotels@la.gov
Linda Pace
LDNR/Office of Coastal Management
Phone: 225.342.7936
Email: Linda.pace@la.gov
MISSISSIPPI
Tina Shumate (PIT Lead)
MDMR
Phone: (228) 523-4122
Email: Tina.Shumate@dmr.ms.gov
TEXAS
Jim Weatherford
Senior Administrator, Hazard Mitigation
Coastal Coordination Division
TGLO Coastal Resources Program
Phone: (512) 463-2572
Email: Jim.Weatherford@glo.state.tx.us
John Jacob
Associate Professor and Extension
Coastal Community Dev. Specialist
Texas Sea Grant
Phone: (281) 218-0565
Email: jjacob@tamu.edu
Federal Co-facilitators
Co-faciliatators from EPA and NOAA have been designated for each of the Priority Issue Teams (PITs) to serve as staff support to PIT state leads. Restoration co-facilitators are listed below:
Heidi Recksiek
NOAA CSC
Gulf Coast Services Center
Phone: (850) 728-1810
Email: Heidi.Recksiek@noaa.gov
John Bowie
EPA
Gulf of Mexico Program
Phone: (228) 688-3888
Email: bowie.john@epa.gov
Implementation Activities
Coastal Resilience Index One-pager: A tool communities can use to examine how
prepared they are for storms and storm recovery.(pdf, 455kb)
StormSmart Coasts: A web resource dedicated to helping decision makers in coastal communities address the challenges of storms... (pdf, 329kb)
Click here to learn about creating topobathy digital elevation models and to access an inventory of topography and bathymetry data for the Gulf of Mexico
Restoration and Resilience Implementation Activities Matrix- Updated April 23, 2007 (pdf, 87kb)
Compiled Resilience Related Activities (Individuals who submitted information should review their entries and send any corrections to Heidi.Recksiek@noaa.gov)
For more detailed information on the Governors' Action Plan and the implementation activities, click here.
Click here to view the Coastal Storms program one-pager or click here to visit the Coastal Storms Program website.
Click here to view updated descriptions of Sea Grant Resiliency Projects.
Resilience Team Meetings
Resilience Stakeholder Engagement Workshops
Members of the Resilience Team are hosting a series of workshops to share the work of the Team and solicit feedback on draft action items.
- MS Resilience Workshop, May 6, Biloxi (raw notes summarizing attendee input)
- AL Resilience Workshop, May 20, Spanish Fort (raw notes summarizing attendee input)
- FL Resilience Workshop, July 29, Panama City
- FL Resilience Workshop, July 31, Tampa
Supporting Documents
Summaries of State participation in the Community Rating System:
Alabama (pdf, 67 kb)
Florida (pdf, 401 kb)
Louisiana (pdf, 103 kb)
Mississippi (pdf, 78 kb)
Texas (pdf, 111 kb)
Florida's Resilient Coasts: A State Policy Framework for Adaptation to Climate Change (pdf, 2.1 mb)
DISASTER RECOVERY: Past Experiences Offer Insights for Recovering from Hurricanes Ike and Gustav and Other Recent Natural Disasters (September 2008) GAO Report to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate
Gulf Storms: Info to help people prepare for and recover from the region's hurricanes
C-SIDE: Coastal Science, Information, & Data for the Ecosystem Note: Site includes updated Extreme Weather Information Sheets for each gulf state
Potential Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Transportation Systems and Infrastructure – The Gulf Coast Study -Presentation by Robert Kafalenos, U.S. DOT / FHWA, June 18, 2008 (pdf,582 kb)
Floodplain Management 2050: Report of the Second Assembly of the Gilbert F. White National Flood Policy Forum (pdf, 2.6 mb)
Gulf Coast Economic Recovery: Two Years After the Hurricane - Economics and Statistics Administration
Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction Reports:
Inundation
Hurricanes
WWF Report:
Natural Security -- Protected areas and hazard mitigation
Report: How the USGS Responded to 2005 Hurricanes and Addresses Storms Today - Represents the work of about 100 USGS scientists and their cooperators nationwide (Link to online report)
Living on the Edge: Treasure Coast Barrier Island Vulnerability
Study - Florida Atlantic University (pdf, 2.4 mb)
Adaptive Response Planning to Sea Level Rise in Florida and Implications for Comprehensive and Public Facilities Planning - Robert Deyle (pdf, 1 mb)
July 10-11 Resilience Priority Issue Team Meeting Summary
(pdf, 57kb)
Summary of the 3 NOAA Community Resiliience Salons
(pdf, 80kb) Summer 2006 - Spring 2007
Resilience Data Form (doc, 37kb)
Resilience Definitions - For review by team (pdf, 80kb)
Coastal Storms Program Scoping Meeting Summary- March 14-15 (pdf, 32kb)
Regional One-pagers:
State Information Sheets:
Alabama Emergency Management Agency's Coastal Projects (pdf, 21kb)
Mississippi DMR Coastal Resiliency Activities (pdf, 24kb)
Mississippi Governors' Office of Recovery and Renewal (pdf, 12kb)
Southern Miss. Gulf Coast Research Lab (pdf, 12kb)
NOAA Extreme Weather information Sheets:
See NOAA's C-SIDE website for updated sheets
Sea Grant Information Sheets:
Louisiana Sea Grant Mitigation Efforts (pdf, 99kb)
Texas Sea Grant addressing Coastal Storm impact and Coastal Resiliency Challenges (pdf, 408kb)
Post Katrina Challenges (pdf, 270kb)
NOAA Information Sheets:
NOAA Coastal Storms Program in the Gulf of Mexico: Sheltering Communities from Coastal Storms (pdf, 879kb)
Coastal Ocean Observing System (pdf, 195kb)
NCDDC CSIDE: Coastal Studies, Information and Data for the Ecosystem (pdf, 334kb)
NDCCD Coastal Risk Atlas (pdf, 130kb)
NGS Coastal Storms Capabilities (pdf, 27kb)
NOAA Storm Surge Partnership Project Overview (pdf, 156kb)
NOAA Storm Surge Partnership Project Modeling, Tools, and Methodologies (pdf, 152kb)
NWS Hydrologic Activities in the Gulf Region (pdf, 156kb)
Other Federal Agency One-pagers:
Naval Research Laboratory Surge and Inundation Modeling (pdf, 166kb)
FEMA Hazaed Mitigation Education and Implementation (pdf, 24kb)
Related Links
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